| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Thomas Adams |
| | | Agree like pikes in a pond, ready to eat up one another. | 1 |
| Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well. | 2 |
| Common as the stones in our streets. | 3 |
| Contention is like fire; for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend with. | 4 |
| Demur like a posed lawyer, as if delay could remove some impediments. | 5 |
| Like a bee or an epigram, all his sting is in his tail. | 6 |
| Run from it as a mendicant friar from an alms. | 7 |
| Strut like a new church warden. | 8 |
| Sweet as new-blown rose. | 9 |
| His will is like the Persian law, unalterable. | 10 | | |
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